Next decade 'may see no warming' By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News website http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7376301.stm La Nina...
Hello, MARINE LIFE NEWS BULLETIN TORPEDO (April 2008) ISSN 1464-8156 Issue no. 139 The monthly news bulletin has been sent out to subscribers and should arrive...
Dear all Just a brief reminder about our lecture next week: Earthwatch Lecture – `Ghanaian Communities & Conservation', Thursday 8th May 2008, 7.00pm -...
Hello, Funding boost for shingle species http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/7381404.stm Sea kale could be lost if shingle beaches are not protected Rare...
Walking on Worthing beach today at low tide we found 5 dead dogfish in a stretch of a mile. Each was about 15" long and intact apart from wounds where the...
Hello Andrew, I have found the same thing in the past. More than once, five dead Dogfish together and intact. I assumed man's activities, probably commercial ...
On Thanet beaches, inshore netting (on rocks at low tide) is quite intensive. When I have spoken to the fishermen, they rarely want dogfish and will throw them...
Just a note to let members of this egroup know that the latest newsletter of the Penzance branch of the British Sub-Aqua Club is now available to download from...
As the first basking sharks are spotted off Cornwall, Cornwall Wildlife Trust (CWT) is calling for volunteers to help them survey basking sharks this summer....
I have found Lesser Spotted Dogfish (Scyliorhinus caniculus) regularly at this time of year, especially in the pools at Worthing/Goring on the lower spring...
Landslip is 'worst in 100 years' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/7386923.stm Cliffs to the east of Lyme Regis have been affected A landslip described...
Hi there Andy did ask this before but we are trying to encourage people to enjoy the coast, hence I should be grateful for suggestions as to shores where the...
There are some great rockpools in Torrisdale Bay, Kintyre. A raised beach with a wonderfully sculpted rockface is home to some nice pools when the tide's out. ...
Hi, Can anyone help with the identification of this large crab from the deep water to the West of Orkney. (photos in Album "Orkney Crab") Local fishermen call...
The European species is Chaceon affinis. I have seen this species at a Spanish fish market in Galicia. They also catch a similar species in the western...
Many thanks for that information Richard. Kind regards, Alan Jackson ... at ... golden ... (Geryon) ... the ... Crab") ... is a ... after ... see if...
Hello Alan, II agree with Richard, it is the geryonid crab Chaceon (Geryon) affinis (Deep-water Red Crab) which has been widely reported from both the North &...
Hello, Draft Marine Bill http://www.official-documents.gov.uk/document/cm73/7351/7351.pdf The Bill proposes the possible extension of SSSIs into estuarine...
Thanks Declan, Does anyone have any information about this crab being kept in captivity before? Survival time, temperature. lighting, feeding, other...
Hello Alan, The answer is no from previous experience. Late at night, but I would suggest: 1) Temperature control (cooling). I have not looked up the sea...
Hello, A report has been received of a Slipper Limpet x 2 discovery in a Roman dig in Essex. Of course, this should not have happened. Possibilities: 1) Wrong...
Hi there Just a reminder that I would be very grateful for your first sightings of the year of triggerfish; also the date of your last sighting of last year if...
diving from falmouth marina an fri 16th may spotted a pod of 4 common dolphins in falmouth bay fish life during the dive was very sparse 1 dogfish and 1...
The lease for Herm Island, which is part of the Channel Islands, has been put up for sale for £15m. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7418107.stm...
Hi all! I´m a trainer for nature guides in the german wadden sea. From a guide in east frisia I got a picture of something absolutely unknown to me. May be a ...
Hello, MARINE LIFE NEWS BULLETIN TORPEDO (May 2008) No. 140 The monthly news bulletin has been sent out to subscribers and should arrive in subscriber's mail...
Don't ask why but i ended up paddling in the harbour this afternoon and took my camera. I knew the crabs, the flattie babies (all of a 5p size) and shrimps,...
The second one looks like either the green sea slug (Elysia viridis) or Aplysia punctata. See: http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet.cfm?base=elysviri and ...
siting of large basking shark while diving the wreck of the Hera nr falmouth 30th May 11 mtrs long very shy the skipper has only seen one other so far...
